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Guantanamo inmate to be released The Obama - Page 25 - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 30th Jul, 2009 - 11:20am
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Guantanamo Prisoners: Justice or Revenge - Page 25
Torture - "If the Americans are doing it, and they're not accountable, then who's going to come to your rescue?"
- -Moazzam Begg, Detainee #558 in Guantanamo Bay.
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The first Guantanamo detainee arrives in New York for a civilian trial.
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| Left, right and center, members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives are united on one point: They want to bar Guantanamo Bay detainees from setting foot in their states. All oppose transferring prisoners even to federal supermax penitentiaries on the grounds that their very presence poses a security risk. And yet we here in New York have just accepted the arrival of a hard-core Al Qaeda thug from Gitmo. The Obama administration dispatched Ahmed Ghailani to the Metropolitan Correctional Center downtown for the purposes of trial in Manhattan Federal Court on longstanding charges of participating in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. Embassies in Africa. Ghailani's move was part of President Obama's plan to close Guantanamo while processing at least some detainees through the civilian criminal justice system. On both counts, his policies are misguided. They are also running into huge practical obstacles, except here in New York, epicenter of the war against terror. Here, we are the target. Here, we are the warriors. Here, we accept our responsibility, regardless of the fact that we keep getting the short end of the stick.Source 9 |
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Judge Orders Release of Guantanamo Prisoner After Seven Years, Saying Government Position "Defies Common Sense"
A federal judge has ordered the release of another prisoner held at Guantanamo Bay, thirty-year-old Syrian national Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak Al Janko. In the year 2000, Al Janko was tortured by al-Qaeda, who accused him of being a Western spy, and he was imprisoned by the Taliban for eighteen months. He was then captured by the United States in 2002 and spent the next seven years in Guantanamo. On Monday, District Court Judge Richard Leon rejected the government's position that Al Janko had once been a part of al-Qaeda, saying it "defies common sense." We speak with British journalist Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison. Ref. Source 4
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